The Nasarawa state chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has commenced a five-day warning strike following the failure of the state government to meet its demands. At a press briefing in Lafia on Wednesday, the state Chairman of NMA, Dr. Peter Attah, said the decision to embark on the five-day warning strike was reached…
An armed gang, suspected to be assassins have killed Ahmad Abubakar Kotorkoshi, welfare officer of the Gusau chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Zamfara state. In a statement on Wednesday in Gusau, chairman of the chapter, Junaidu Abubakar, said the deceased, popularly known as Ahmed Kotorkoshi, was gruesomely murdered at his Kotorkoshi residence, Bungudu…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has banned Mmesoma Ejikeme, the school girl who allegedly forged her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result from taking the board’s examinations for three years. Spokesperson of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement released on Tuesday. The board also insisted that high-level investigations had revealed…
Civilian staff of the Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria (DICON), Kaduna, have accused the management of the corporation for allegedly ordering soldiers to beat them during a peaceful protest to demand for the non payment of their allowances. The peaceful protest which held on Monday at the Kakuri factory of the corporation, was the second…
Ejikeme Mmesoma, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School Nnewi, Anambra state, has dismissed allegations by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) that she manipulated her 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result. JAMB had in a statement on Sunday, dismissed claims that Mmesoma was the top scorer as claimed, adding that she actually got…
A former governor of Zamfara, Ahmed Sani Yerima, has called for dialogue with bandits. According to him, the federal government has the capacity to confront the challenges decisively. Speaking in an interview with State House correspondence on Monday after a meeting President Bola Tinubu, the former senate minority leader maintained that poverty and ignorance were…
